Race and Gender Review

Which of the following best describes the symbolic interactionist view of prejudice?

• Prejudice allows people’s self-concept to be strengthened because they believe they are superior to others.
• Children are taught to be prejudiced by watching the behavior of significant others who express prejudices
• Prejudice strengthens society both economically and culturally.
•  Prejudice only becomes a problem in society when it is institutionalized.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a minority group?

• They have distinctive physical or cultural traits

• Members of the group share a common sense of identity

• The minority is controlled by the majority

• Minorities get suppressed by the majority because certain minority traits are believed to be superior

The blending or fusing of the minority groups into the dominant society is known as...

• Assimilation

• Cultural Transfusion

• Cultural Pluralism

• None of the Above

The action of treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, or culture is:

• prejudice

• racism

• discrimination

• stereotype

Race is based on _____________ characteristics, while Ethnicity is based on ____________ characteristics

• cultural, physical
• physical, cultural
• achieved, ascribed
• citizenship, cultural

Which of the following describes poverty rates for African Americans and Latinos?

• Lower than whites
• Equal to whites
• Slightly higher than whites
• Higher than whites

True or False: There is biological basis for racial categories.

• True

• False

________________ refers to a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Nationality

• Minority

________________ refers to the identity of a group sharing distinctive cultural characteristics.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Nationality

• Minority

___________________ is viewing your own ethnic group as superior.

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Ethnocentrism

• Discrimination